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BOCCHI, Achille (1488-1562). Symbolicarum libri quinque. Bologna: printed for the author at the Nova Academia Bocchiana, 1555.
4° (204 x 133mm.). Woodcut emblem oxhead skull, engraved portrait of Bocchi, 151 large engraved emblems by Giulio Bonasone (c.1498-c.1574) after Prospero Fontana (1512-1597) and Parmigianino (1503-1540). (Light soiling in the title and some margins, occasional light spotting.) Green morocco by Lardiere, sides panelled with gilt rules and corner tools, the spine richly gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (spine lightly and evenly faded). Provenance: [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED EMBLEM BOOK. YATES THOMPSON COPY. Bocchi is counted 'among the first emblematists' (Praz). Symbolicarum quaestionum 'takes as its subject the whole of universal knowledge: physics, metaphysics, theology, dialectic, Love, Life and Death, packaging them under the veil of fables and myths' (John Manning, The Emblem, 2002, p.114). Bonasone's superb engravings show his classical taste in composition and in depiction of graceful movement of the human figures and animals. Although most emblems are of Bonasone's own design, there are copies of paintings by Raphael and Parmigianino, and one based on Hieronymus Bosch (p. 270). This copy with the first setting of quire B. Adams B-2194; Brunet I:1021; Heckscher & Sherman, Emblem Books in the Princeton University Library 107; Landwehr Romanic 162; Mortimer Italian 76; Praz p. 276.
4° (204 x 133mm.). Woodcut emblem oxhead skull, engraved portrait of Bocchi, 151 large engraved emblems by Giulio Bonasone (c.1498-c.1574) after Prospero Fontana (1512-1597) and Parmigianino (1503-1540). (Light soiling in the title and some margins, occasional light spotting.) Green morocco by Lardiere, sides panelled with gilt rules and corner tools, the spine richly gilt in compartments and lettered directly in gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (spine lightly and evenly faded). Provenance: [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS CELEBRATED EMBLEM BOOK. YATES THOMPSON COPY. Bocchi is counted 'among the first emblematists' (Praz). Symbolicarum quaestionum 'takes as its subject the whole of universal knowledge: physics, metaphysics, theology, dialectic, Love, Life and Death, packaging them under the veil of fables and myths' (John Manning, The Emblem, 2002, p.114). Bonasone's superb engravings show his classical taste in composition and in depiction of graceful movement of the human figures and animals. Although most emblems are of Bonasone's own design, there are copies of paintings by Raphael and Parmigianino, and one based on Hieronymus Bosch (p. 270). This copy with the first setting of quire B. Adams B-2194; Brunet I:1021; Heckscher & Sherman, Emblem Books in the Princeton University Library 107; Landwehr Romanic 162; Mortimer Italian 76; Praz p. 276.
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